The Seer

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While the identification of Consciousness with the individual is strong the ‘progressive path’ is the path of choice because time and ‘me’ are the foundation of the experience of such aspirants. Aspirants involved with the progressive path often experience moments of presence but fail to understand Presence’s impersonal quality. They invariably refer to those high states as ‘mine’ and they say ‘they are not permanent yet’.

This lack of understanding then manifests as seeking a future attainment and an investment in methods and practices, that is, in mind activity that supplants other types of mind activity which are defined as undesirable. This is the path that says: ‘if you do this long enough you will get that’. It is the path designed to keep you on the path ad infinitum.

What could be called the ‘direct path’ is the path of a single pointer to the timeless and ever present reality of our Being. This pointer can come in any of a number of unexpected ways. It may come through written words, it may come through the silent presence of a sage, it may eventually be realized as coming from the Consciousness that we are Itself — and here the path ends. This is the path that says: ‘you already are what you are seeking — all there is is Consciousness’.

The truth is that there is no path at all. It is all conceptual — a dream made of the same substance, and put in effect by the same power, as the dreams in sleep. All there is is pure Being or Consciousness appearing as everything including the individual seeking the resolution to the question of existence.

From the site of the Brazilian teacher,
Felipe Oliveira